The “Accountability, Technology and Institutional Openness Network in South East Europe – ACTION SEE” with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy through the project “Using New Media to Promote Government Transparency,” has launched the eighth wave of measurements of the openness of the executive and legislative branches in four countries in the region (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro) through the Openness Index.
The Openness Index is a composite indicator that has been determining the degree of openness of state institutions in the Western Balkans towards citizens and society for 7 years in a row and was created to define the extent to which citizens in the Western Balkans receive convenient and understandable information from institutions.
To measure the degree of institutional openness, the partners of the ACTION SEE network, following international standards and recommendations, as well as examples of good practices, monitor institutions according to specific quantitative and qualitative indicators, such as: access to information on the official websites of the institutions, the quality of the legal framework for certain issues, other sources of information to the public, published data on the operation of the institution, public procurement, information on the spending of public money, etc.
Based on the seventh wave of measurements conducted during 2022-2023, the publications “Assessment of Good Governance of the Legislative Branch in North Macedonia and the Region through the Openness Indexореност” and “Assessment of the Good Governance of the Executive Branch in North Macedonia and the Region through the Openness Index,” were produced, which, in addition to the main conclusions on the openness of individual institutions, also contain specific recommendations and steps to improve their openness.
The project Using New Media to Promote Government Transparency is implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society, along with other partners from the region, the Center for Democratic Transition (Montenegro), the Civic Association Why not? (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability – CRTA (Serbia), with financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy.
The activities are part of the project “Transparency and Accountability of State Institutions in the Republic of Macedonia” implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation with financial support from the Foundation Open Society – Macedonia.
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